Hook and eye.



I. A. ODONNELL & M. PERRI.

HOOK AND EYE.

APPLICATION FIL'ED APR. 30, 1912.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

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THOMAS A. ODONNELL AND MICHELE FERRI, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

HOOK AND EYE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 26, 1912.

Application filed April 30, 1912. Serial No. 694,226.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

' Be it known that we, THOMAS A. ODoN- NELL and MICHELE FnRRI, citizens of the United States, residing at WVashington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to hooks and eyes for use as garment fastenings, and for other purposes.

The object of this invention is the production of a hook and eye each having parts of special construction and arrangement, whereby it is believed the hook cannot become disengaged during ordinary use, and the hook and eye are always yieldingly held in the same position with respect to each other, neither being displaced in any direction with reference to the other.

The construction and arrangement of the parts of this invention are set forth in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the hook. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the hook. Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the eye, and Fig. 4c is a section of the eye on broken line a:m of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents the hook and eye engaged, and in this figure the devices are inverted and so disposed with respect one to the other as to show the stud of the eye grasped by the jaws of the hook.

In the drawings and description, the same letter is employed to referto the same part.

The hook illustrated is made of wire, but this invention is not confined to that material. Considering Figs. 1 and 2, it will be noted that the hook member of this invention comprises the straight portions A and a, which are continued in one direction to form the loops B and C, intended to be stitched to any fabric, and having the relatively narrower loop D located between them as shown. At their other ends the straight portions A and a are bent upon themselves and return toward the loops B and C in the straight portions E and 6. Near the loops B and C the straight portions E and e are bent upon themselves to form the portions F ang Gr, lying in the same plane with the straight portions E and e, and between those portions as best illustrated in Fig. 2. The portions E, F, and G, e, are in effect resilient jaws, and the bends connecting those portions are the yieldingly separable points of the book. The portions A and a, and the loops B and C lie in the same plane, and may be regarded as the body of the hook member of this invention, while the portions E, c, F and G lie together in a plane parallel to the plane of the body of the hook, and may be regarded as forming the bill of the hook. It will be observed in Fig. 2 that the portions F and G are slightly separated from each other and that they are provided near the middle with the bends H and h curving outwardly toward the portions E and e and in the same plane.

Considering Figs. 3 and at, it will be noted that the eye comprises the two ends provided with suitable holes by which it may be stitched to the fabric. The ends are marked J and j. As best shown in Fig. 4:, the eye member has a raised or bridge portion K, provided at its middle with a depression or stud is, formed by stamping the metal of the bridge K downwardly to a suitable extent.

In the operation of this invention, which will be understood. by inspection of Fig. 5, the portions E and F act as one resilient jaw, and the portions G and e as the other jaw, and such jaws are inserted beneath the bridge K of the eye until the bends H and h grasp the stud k as illustrated in Fig. 5. Now, the hook cannot become displaced by ordinary service, and the hook and eye are held in one position with respect to each other.

In practice, the ends f and g of the portions F and G are bent over into the same plane with portions A and a, as shown in Fig. 1, and a suitable finished appearance thus given that end of the hook member.

Having now described this invention, and explained the mode of its operation, what we claim is 1. In a hook and eye, a hook member comprising a bill composed of spaced resilient wires forming jaws and an eye having a bridge portion provided with a downwardlyextending stud constructed and arranged to be engaged by the jaws of the hook member when inserted beneath the bridge of the eye.

2. In a hook and eye, the combination with an eye having ends constructed for attachment to fabric, the said eye having a raised bridge portion extending between said In testimony whereof we afliX our signaends and provided wlth a stud pro eotlng tures 111 presence of two witnesses.

below the brid e aortion, and a hook com- I prising a body oor tion arranged to pass over i 8 F the bridge of the eye and a bill comprising J separable resilient jaws arranged to pass Witnesses:

through the eye under said bridge and to GUSTAV ERLEBAOHER,

engage the said stud. ZANTKA FLICKINGER.

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